Re: [SG][FT][DS] The UN in the GZG universe... (long)

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:
> Adrian spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> > A whole bunch of questions spring to mind...
> > UN Citizenship - particularly relevant if the UN has it's own armed
forces:
> >  how do they offer it, what does it mean (do you give up your
original
> > citizenship, are you protected from obligatory military service in
your
> > home state if you have UN status, etc), what are the political
implications
> > of it (does creating a class of citizenship independent of the
member
> > nations not turn the UN into a defacto "state" of its own, which
means it
> > would then have the interests of a state... what was that quote: 
"States
> > do not have friends or enemies, only interests" or something like
that)
> 
> I think the UN has holdings that have a certain extraterritorial 
> nature to them. Perhaps arcologies,

the oceans. 70% of the world is ocean, and most of that is outside
territorial waters. there is plenty of room to settle the continental
shelves and build floating settlements ('thalassarcologies'). think
seaquest dsv! the first millenial foundation (nutters on the web) have a
master plan called 'aquarius rising' to build some sort of ill-defined
colonies at sea. the plan then leads on to the colonisation of space. i
don't entirely understand it myself.

> Oh, you mean the garden planet New Geneva (location to be determined 
> once Winchell decides if the whole of known space needs realigned to 
> position the NSL in line of the KraVak advance from the core)?

what ever happened to the PAU? the first sighting of the kv inside human
space was in pau territory, as detailed in an MT microstory. surely the
pau should be first in the line of fire? perhaps there is a small tongue
of pau territory just outside the bulk of the nsl space.

Tom